We are now well into the week of mesh, so posting has been light lately and will be through the week. We’ve just announced the 15 minutes of fame winners, so head on over to the mesh blog and check out the details – we were delighted with the superb quality and high number of […]

I just could not resist – the first graf from this piece from the NY Post caught my eye: “Google is trying to clean up its search results by cracking down on dubious Web sites that contain little content but lots of ads.”

An interesting quote from Google CEO Eric Schmidt in the context of Google’s plans to fuel its personalization technology by amassing wide and deep data on each of us. It was not that long ago that such plans scared the bejeezus out of us – Doubleclick was practically run out of town on a rail […]

I’m not sure how to read the WaPo piece on the untold story of John Ashcroft’s resistance to the more fanatical elements of the Bush White House’s rollback on civil liberties. Was he a misunderstood hero? Or (paraphrasing Ralph Neas) did it just take an Alberto Gonzales to cast Ashcroft in the role of a […]